Vaccines are coming.
Donald Trump is going.
Sometime in 2021, life will look
a lot more normal.
But it won’t be the same.
What would you give to be standing in a restaurant right now, post-pandemic, shouting a drink order over the noise of your laughing friends? Picture it. The bar you’re leaning against would be sticky with strangers’ spills. The air you’re breathing would be filtered through those strangers’ nasal tracts. And you wouldn’t think twice about it.
Many of us have spent the past nine months lusting for a normal night like that. Many of us have spent the past four years longing for a normal president. In 2021, we may get both of those wishes. But what will “normal” look like? What should it look like?
We asked a dozen writers what they thought. Will we go back to the office, and if so, will we regret it? Will teachers and students have learned anything from Zoom school? Can the fashion and restaurant industries survive? Can bipartisanship? What is the future of political poetry? What is the future of promiscuous sex?
The pandemic isn’t over; there are months of suffering to come. But — eventually — it may be a happy new year after all.
Illustrations by Daniel Forero
“We are learning what we should
have known all along.”
“I just really miss my friends.”
“Why wait for tomorrow?”
“Things will not be the same, because
we will not be the same.”
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